The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 8, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..§0.18 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 Daily snd Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 8.00 Dally and Sunday CALz, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail.. .65 Sunday CaLL, one year, by mail.. 1.50 W XEXLY CALL, ODe year, by mail. 150 THE SUMMER MONTHS. Areyou going to the country ona _vacation? If 80, 1t 18 no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to our address. Talss 1o, Orders given to the carrier or left at Business ©ffice will recelve prompt sattention NO EXTKA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, Californis. Telephone.... ..Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. ‘Telephone.... ..Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery sreet, corner Clay; open untl 9:80 o'clock. 839 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. €W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 116 Mnth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 51 and 33, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THi FOR ALL. —————————————— Patriotism, Protection and Prosperity. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Oblo FOR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey Election November 3, 1896, Work for Colonel Taylor and good gov- ernment. What objection have you to Republican harmony? Sewall is something of a rhetorician himself of a poor kind. Don’t you know th. Ior is help to Buckl It is a good thing for Bry blow his own horn, for no one else will do it for him. Every effort to divide the Republican party receives the undivided support of the Democratic bosses. Fusion in California begins to look more like Catorism than Bryanism and hasn’t been improved by the change, “We want good times, plenty of work, 200d wages and good money,” says Mc- Kinley, and so say we all of us. Don't overlook.the legislative ticket. We must have a Republican Senator to guard the industries of the State. For very shame sake some Democratic leaders are taking the stump, but they are not crowing any louder than sick roosters, The cause of protection is the cause of every industry in the United States. Why should not all industrious Americans vote for it? The election of Bryan would not be al- together a leap in the dark, for we have tried Democracy and we Enow what it means. In the coming prosperity of the San Joequin, Stockton and Fresno will have s lively rivalry to see which will lead the procession. It is announced that Cleveland will soon return to Washington, but it is nqt an- nounced that anybody cares whether he does or not. Bryan’s kick against the gold Demo- crats is subject to the serious drawback that they kicked him first and are now out of his reach. . Sewall’s letter of acceptance settles the question as to his staying on tbe ticket. Tom Watson will have to continue his ride on the brakebeam. In this campaign the deor of oppor- tunity. swings open for labor, but the elec- tion of Bryan would shut it up as tightly as did the election of Cleveland. Under the Republican-policies of sound money and protection two-thirds of our National devt was paid off. Why not re- turn to those policies and pay off the rest of it? . BRSPS e The Bryanites and the National Demo- crats both declare Senator Hill has lost an opportunity, but what troubles Hill is that he is about to lose his seat in the Senate. In turning his aitacks from the Repub- licans to the National Democrats Bryan shows some discretion, for he can hope to beat Palmer, but he has no chance at all aganst McKinley. * Bewall’s letter of acceptance ought to mitigate the wrath of Tom Watson, for it accuses capital of ‘“avarice and unholy greed” with as much fervor as Watson himself could do it Chairman Alford of the Democratic State Committee may find some glory in playing the role of the boy who stood on the burning deck whence all but him had fled, but all the same he is feeling very lonely. Republican gains in the town elections in Connecticut have been even greater than those of iast year over the vote of 1894. It is becoming evident that instead of alandslide we are going to have a con- tinental upheaval. Asa result ot the vigorous Republican campaign in all the States that were con- sidered doubtful when the canvass began there now remain none which are so con- sidered except some of those that were counted sure for Bryan. Mr. Hanna's management has ceased to be a joke with the Democrats. An item is gomng the rounds of.the Democratic and Populist press asserting that “Leigh H. Irvine of the San Fran- cisco CALL has been making a political tour of California and writes that the Btate will give Bryan 50,000 majority." As a general rule it 18 not worth while to kill a campaign lie, but we will kill this one for luck. Mr. Irvine bas never written to anybody anywhere any such thing, The item is absolutely without found tion or authority. Do not let it miss you for you will | ME. SEWALL AOCOEPTS. Mr. Sewall’s letter of acceptance is com- paratively short as such letters go, but it is long enough to put an end to the hopes of Tom Watson. Mr. Sewall accepts. He will stick,- He not only sticks, but he stands with ' Mr. Bryan .as an extreme ad- vocate of the worst features of the Chi- cago platform. Short as is his letter of acceptance it jslong enough to show that this millionaire ship-owner and banker is not above playing the demagogue in order to obtain votes. He says: We are now told that the country has pros- pered under the present monetary standard; that its wealth has enormously increased. Granted. Butin whose hands? In the hands of the toilers, the farmers, the miners, the fab- ricators in the factories, the creators of the National wealth in peace, its defenders in war? Have they prosperity, which was theirs so late as even two years ago? Idenyit I deny it. None affirm it save those whosein- terests it is to do so, whose profits would di- minish as prosperity returns to those on whose distress they thrive. Against the statement that none affirm that the people have prospered, we quote the common experience of every producer and industrious workingman in the coun- try. We had prosperity until the election of a Democratic President and a.Demo- cratic Congress, pledged to free trade. All are aware that hard times came upon us only when Mr. Cleveland entered upon his present term of office. Against that statement of Mr. Sewall we can set an extract from a speech de- livered by Major McKinley on Tuesday, apd very fortunately published on the same day as Mr. Sewall’s letter of accept- ance. Mr. McKinley said: We can hardly realize that from 1873 to 1893 we reduced the public debt from $2.388,- 331,308 to $570,000,000. We paid off during those twenty years $1,623,581,671 of the pub- lic debt. And we were under a protective and | sound money system when we were making | large payments. Two-thirds of that great debt | disappeared, and while we were paying it off we were building up in this country the most | splendid industrial enterprises, giving con- | stant, steady employment to American labor. | The greater vart of Mr. Sewall's letter | is made up of an appeal to what he fondly believes are ciass prejudices. He would, if he could, excite the passion of iabor against capital. In these portions of his | letter he has not been exceeded for ex- | travagance of utterance by Tom Watson | himself, He speaks of “the avarice and | unholy greed of capital” : denounces what he is pleased to call “the monopoly of gold,”” and shows himself in every sentence not above appealing to the passions and the ignorance of the most discontented portion of the people. The letter ought to satisfy Tom Watson and induce him to get off the ticket. He could hardly hope to exceed Mr. Sewall in his denunciations of property and law. Sewall is proving himself a good running mate for Bryan. They area well-matched pair, fit representatives of a demoralized Demeocracy. The quesiion is what party policy will best subserve the greatest good of the greatest number, and what party prin- ciple will most surely restore ocon= | fdence, open upthe channels of trade, set in motion the wheels of industry, and give employment to the idle hands. It is not what Is best for to-day, to- morrow or mext year, but what is best | for the years that are to come.—Mayor Pingree. GOING TOO FAR. No part of the Bryan campaign in the Mississippi Valley has been more offensive to American loyalty and common decency than the attacks which have been made upon Generals Sickles, Alger and Howard by some of the radical supporters of the fusion ticket. The canvass of these vet- eran defenders of the Union seems to have excited the worst passions of the Bryan- ites, and the brave old solaiers have been maligned and insulted beyond the bounds of toleration by good citiz ns. The Omaha Bryan was at one time the editor, is in- ciuded by our Eastern exchanges among the organs which have been most vin- dictive in their attacks, but as we have not seen the language used by that journal we may let it pass. Another Bryanite organ, however, the South Omaha Daily Sun, s quoted as having said: A carload of old bummers, called “generals,” are now touring the country on free passes and their other expenses are being paid by # Hanna, telling the people how to vote. They were in Omaha last night. When the people stop to censider why such skunks are so terri- bly interested it is enough to settle the matter that it is not any love for the poor man or the laborer that prompis these ‘‘ginerals” to thus swing around the circle. Such attacks upon men whom the coun- try honors have natarally aroused the in- dignation of the people. It is not sur- prising, therefore, to learn that when ‘*Coin”’ Harvey ventured upon a similar attack at Clinton, lowa, he was hissed and hooted into silence by the audience which had gathered to hear him. He is reported to have referred to the generals as “old wrecks of the Rebellion who have lost their honor and patriotism, and are tools of political shysters.” Further than that it seems he was not permitted to go by his audience, and some of the more in- dignant patriots present could hardly be restrained from dragging him off the plat- form. The American people allow to news- papers and to stump orators a large license of speech, but there is a limit to that as to all things. General Sickles, General Alger and General Howard have attested their devotion to the Union, their loyaity and their patriotic love of the Re- public by services too arduous, too honor- able and too distinguished for any good citizen to sit in silence and hear them maligned. It is about time that the agitators and demagogues who have sprung up among us were made to under- stand that the American people have a feeling of profound reverence for the veterans of the war for the Union, and rezard any detamation of them as an in- sult to themselves. —_— My greatest concern, my chief object in this, as in every campaign, is to drive from-our shores distress and wart and misery, and lift up those who are bowed down, and bring to those who are in want work and prosperity., And I will never view with tolerance any sys- tem which has a differeant object toward any American citizen anywhere within the limits of our great Republic.—Mc- Kinley. LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS. It was a happy thought of the people of Galesburg, Iil, t5" dedicate the soldiers’ monument in the temetery of that city on theanniversary of the debate there between Lincoln and Douglas. The event in this way became a double commemoration. It not only recalled the heroic deeds of those who died that the Union mignt live, but revived memories of the great debate which, with the exception of that between ‘Webster and Hayne, is the most illus- trious in our annals. 3 Very properly the. principal speaker at the dedication ceremonies was the emi- nent son of the chief of the two great disputants of thirty-eight years ago. Robert T. Lincoln does not owe to the memory of his father all the honor in World-Herald, of which | which he is held by the American people. He has rendered many services to the Uniont and has proved over and over again that his sympathies and sentiments are in thorough accord with a genuine Americanism. Standing beside the monu- ment which marks the graves of the Na- tion's dead he did not forget that when the war broke out the debate between Lincoln and Douglas ended and that the ereat Democrat was as loyal as the greater Republicau to the preservation of the Union. Very naturally Mr. Lincoln drew from the memories of the Ciyil War the lesson which is applicable to the present time. After pointing out that when the war be- gan men of all parties united for the de- fense of the Nation, and proved that the patriotism of the people was superior to its partisan spirit, he said: In the mind of alover of his country there is no difference between an attack upon its territory and an &ttack upon its honor. When either is lost all is lost that gives the pride of citizenship of s great country. In the de- fense of one as in the defense of the other there must be a sacrifice of all private inter- ests, a einking of all mere party feeling. Each citizen must listen not to sophistries addressed to his suspected selfishness, but to the voice of his own conscience. This was what was done by the patriots in every National crisis. Their union was then invincible and their union will always be invincible. Itis.one of the best assurancesof the stability of our form of government that party spirit does not materially affect the underlying patriotism of the people. We see to-day in the action of conservative Democrats, lea by Palmer and Buckner, an illustration of that spirit which sets the welfare of the country above party success, and in the general gratification which this affords the whole country will share with the people of Galesburg the honor in which they recall the memories of Lincoln and of Douglas. The mints will not furnish the farmer with more consumers. He has the most profitable market for what he produces at home and not abroad. Me is met in the markets of the world by the prod- uets of other lands beyond the sea. The only market he can rely upon every day of the year is the American market, and what he wants to know is how to make that market the best. He cannot do it by closing the mills. He cannot do it by putting out the fires of our fur- naces. He cannot do it in taking busi- ness away from the great raflroad lines of the country.—McKinley. BRYAN ON DEMOCRACY. Mr. Bryan has shown that discretion which is the better part of valor by turn- 1ng his attacks from McKinley and the Re- publican party to General Palmer and the National Democracy. Against Major Mc- Kinley he could do nothing; but he has a reasonable expectation of beating General Palmer. While this isdiscretion, when contrasted with courage, it can hardly be called good politics. Ii Mr. Bryan and the managers of his campaign were at all wise, they wouid ignore the division in the Demo- craiic party, and endeavor by every means in their power to hold all Democratic votes for the Populist fusion. Bryan and his managers, however, have completely lost their heads. They are going through the campaign railing against everybody, and reviling even those who might, with wiser tactics, haye been persuaded to remain neutral, if not to give at least partial sup- port to the fusion ticket. Ic his address at Indianapolis Mr. Bryan said of the National Democracy: ““If it was big enough to justify the name it would be a stupendous fraud, but it is too small to be called stnpendous. I will call it a transparent fraud. It was the first political convention ever held in this country where the members of the com- mittee nominated a ticket they did not ex- pect to vote .or, and the first case where men received a némination anddo not want to be voted for.” If Mr. Bryan is correct in saying that the Indianapolis ticket does not expect to be voted for he ought to have been wise enough to make a bia for the votes of those men who might otherwise have voted for Palmer and Buckner. Instead of doing so he chose to denounce them and mock at them in a way that can have no other effect than that of alienating them from himself. Many a goldsstandard Democrat .might have voted for Mr. Bryan as the champion of free trade if Mr. Bryan had the courage to main- tain and assert a consistent course on that question, but by ignoring the tariff issue and pushing to the front only the Popun- list features of his platform he has de- vrived himself of any right to expect the support of the conservative, socnd-money, free-trade Democrats. It is not to be wondered that the abler leaders of the Democratic party have re- fused to take the stump 1n defense of such a programme as the boy orator has put forth, His tactics compel division in the Democratic ranks, and no D-mocrat who looks to the future and has any hope of being accepted ‘as a Democratic leader after the collapse of this futile campaign can come forward as the champion of Bryanism. All leaders of National repute are wise enough to remain silent and wait until the confusion is over. They see that nothing is to be gained by helping Bryan, and they are determined not to lose them- selves with him in this futile effort at fusion with Populism. PER:ONAL. Dr. A. Auderson of Petaluma is in the City. Dr. H. G. Gross of Humboldt Bay is in town. The Rev. L. Kennedy of Eureka arrived here yesterday. Dr. J. M. Kiesselbach of Germany 18 at the Californis. L. F. Bruner, a merchant of Sacramento, is at the Grand. L. L. Green, a druggist of Oroville, arrived here yesterday. A. L McBorley, an attorney of San Andreas, is at the Grand. John Pemberton of the yacht Coronet is reg- istered atthe Palace. C. G. Pulsifer of New York is among the arrivals at the Palace. H. F. Dougherty, a cattleman of Willits, Kas., is at the Cosmopolitan. 8. Emanary and T. Aoyagl, tea merchants of New York, are at the Cosmopolitan. Commander H. P. Skelding of Mare Island is at the Occidexntal, accompanied by his family. W. A. Caruthers, a wealthy landowner of Caruthers Station, Fresno County, is at the Cosmopolitan. Dr. A. E. Osborne, superintendent of the House for the Feeble-Minded at Eldridge, is here on a brief visit. . . R. P. Rithet, one of the old snd wealthy residents of Victoris, B. C., who is interested in many things and who has been prominent in politics, is at the Palace. Mr. Rithet is the owner of the Driard House, C. M. Grunwaldt of St. Petersburg, manager of the Russian Sealskin Company, which owns concessions in different parts- of Siberia, Kamchatka and the islands off shore, arrived here yesterday from Vladivostock, accom- panied by N. A. Grehnitzky of the latter city. They are en route to St. Petersburg. o i e CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 7.—At the West- minster, C. W. Babcock; Everett, Miss Cham- bers, F. O. Lambert, A. G. Perkins and wife; Continental, R. Roberts; Stuart, J. W. Allaire; Holland, T. L. Cunningham, H. 8, Scott, Al- bert W. H. Peyson. NOTINCONSISTENT Judge E. V. Spencer Tells Why He Supports Wil- liam McKinley. J Fdzfl E. V. Spencer, the well-known jurlut of Lassen County sends the foliow- ing open letter to the Sacramento Bee: BUBANVILLE, Lassen County, Cal October 2, 1896. To the Sacramento Evening Bee—MY DEAR Bxe: In your pdper of September 10, 1896, you have seen fit to republish & letter written to you by me on March 18, 1896, in which let- ter I indorsed the declarations of the Bee favorable to the coinage of silver; then you !)ubllal_ud an interview with a CALL reporter n which Ideclared myself strongly in favor of McKinley; then you were pleased to say that I should remember that Bryan's state- ments are to the same tune I sang in March of this year: In “connection with these statements you bave tried to hold me before the public asan example of political inconsistency. Under strong headlines you have placed me as ‘Spencer agaiust Spencer.” My attention having been but recently called to this publi- cation I embrace the first opportunity to esll Jour attention to the error into which you ave fallen in your attempt to make meap- pear to be inconsistent wit! mdyneu. First—My letter of March 18 does not say one word about McKinley or protection. Second—In my interview with THE CALL I did not say anything about silver except to say that “Mr, Bryvan proclaims himself the iriend of the laborer, and all in the same breath he declares himself in favor of giving the work to the foreigner and of opening our mints to foreign silver.” Now, my dear Bee, I call your attention to the fact that your alleged inconsistency 18 not apperent irum any language used by me in the matter published by you. f there is any inconsistency, it must be found in your apparent supposition that I am now opposed to the coinage of silver and that Iam supporting Mr, McKinley because of his opposition thereto. ut [ beg to assure you that the apparent in- ferences which you seem to draw from my statements are grossly incorrect. I am not supporting Mr. McKinley for either of the rea- sons suggested, but I am supporting him for reasons greater aud more important than either. And, as you have sought to pisco me in an uncomfortable position before the pub- lic, I trust you willdo me the justice to give the same pablicity to my statement of the sub- jects referred to in your publication. And allow me to assure you that if there is any ngplrem inconsistency in the position oc- cupled by me in March lastand in my position now, I am more deeply interested in knowing that I am rignt now than Iam in an attempt 10 explain away such inconsistency. It matters but littie what notions you or I may have entertained last March, but it is im- portant that we should be prepared to vote right when the time comes. And first let me say that I have never been in favor of the unlimited coinage of silver, for 1 have never been able to understand how it would benefit the American people to have the foreigner’s silver coined in our mints. But 1 have been in favor ‘of eoining all the silver Brodueld from the mines located within the orders of the United States. But, my dear Bee, it does not matter just now what I would have or what you would have if we could, or what either of us said or thought before the conventions, we are now compelled to choose in this contest between 1wo candidates, two platforms, two conditions, and in common with the multitude we must go to the polis not to Lave what we would, but to choose which of these two we will vote for. Icannot get all of that which would please me best from either party. But when the great multitude of the wise men from the East met in the convention, of my party and yours, and after a careful deliberation determined that the littie hendful of delegates from the shores of the Pacific were mistaken in their thought as to what wes best for the whole Ecople of this great Nation. And after that ma- jority had decided that it was not wise and tha? it would not be for the best interests ot the majority of our people to embark in the free and unlimited coinage of the silver of the world, and wnen that ma- jority dec'ared that in their best judgment it would result in driving the gold outof the country and in leaving us with silver alone, that it would produce panic and distress and demoralization in business everywhere in our land, I am {ree to confess that the judgment of the muititude causes me to nesitate and to begin to think seriously whether they might not be right and I wrong, even in my Gesire for the coinage of our own product of silver. y modesty and a full realization of the fact that it is not given to any one to know it 1lled me to take off my bat and bow & re- speciful regard for the aggregate wisdom of that Republican statesmanship whieh has fed this Nation through its darkest days and hardest siruggle (o a condition of solidity, strength, weaith and prosperity, which have made it the marvel of the natious of the earth, And I am notone of those who believe in the universal rottenness of mankind, so that when I have heard men and newspapers cry out out against the St. Louis convention and de- e that it was controlled by the money of Wall street, I have tnought it possibie that such declarations might arise from the fact that the parties making them would notdare to trust themselves within the reach of temp- tation. Giving full faith and credit to the honest; and sincerity of all_the conventions, we fin ourselves compelled to choose between Demo- cratic free trade and what is ca'led free silver on the one hand and Republican protection and sound money on the other, 50 I am ready to declare that I will not swallow Bry- anisiic and Demoeratic{rée trade, even though covered ever so ingenuously under a coating of stlver, But I most unhesitatingly declare myself in favor of protection as the source from which the American people, and particularly the laboring masses, can receive greater benefit, more lasting success and prosperity than from any other source of relief within our reach. * And no matter how much I might believe in the wisdom of coining silver, when that con- sideration is put in the balance as agaipst protection to our industries, it sinks into in- significanee. rotection will afford sure relief and sure ilxn'él“m“m to the American laborer of every nd. It will make manufacturing profitable and will thus reopen our workshops which have been closed by tbat Democratic fraud, tariff for revenue onl: 1abor for millions of our now unemployed. wiil make the l;u-m‘lm:licm of sugar profitable, 50 that we shall be able to produce what we consume at home, and in this item slone will save a hundred millions a year of our money 10 be distributed among our own people in- stead of being sent out of the country as now to pay chelpilbor in other lands for what we consume. This sugar item alone will furnish more labor for the unemployed and will bring more prosperity to our country and keep more money in the country dand in circulation than it is possib.e for the coinage of silver to do un- der &‘i most favorable conditions which any reasonable man can anticipate. With our mills and manufactories producin, the commodities we use, and the produce of the orchard, vineyara and farm protected from foreign competition, the farm will pay, and with our wool, iumber and other products roperly protected and our moneg kept at Kome labor will be plenty and the laborer well paiq, and the sunlight of prosperity and hap- piness will shine in at the poor man’s window and ail will be well as it has been in the past, when you and I, my dear Bee, were hurrahing for the grand results of Republican protection and were warning the Peop e to baware of the dangers of Democratic free trade, and were pointing out the ruin it had wrought in the years gone by. My dear Bee, in your support of Bryan you seem to bave forgoiten that Mr, Bryan is and ever has been the rankest and mosi unreason- abie free trader in the United Siates. That he has always been the sworn enemy of that pro- tection which you and I have always believed in and have so earnestiy advocated. You seem to have forgotten that it was Bryan who talked longest and loudest in Con- gress against the sugar bounty and who did most to cause its re and thus cut down & rowing industry which very soon weuld have ,urmlhed labor to many thousands of those lnbo;en whom he now pretends to love so much. You seem to have lost sight of these facts: That it was Bryan who moststrongly urged up- on Congress the putting of wool and very many other commodities of our produce upon the free list and thus brought poverty, hard times and disiress to those having all their wealth invested in those enterprises and thus turned another multitude his dearly peloved laborers out of a job. Thet this man Bryan, with all his power advocated that reduction of our tariff on for- ug:l?rodnnu which has turned a million and 8 more of his dear friends, the laborers in our manufactories, out in the cold withouta Lob, and has them to save themselves from unger by eating up the money they had stored up in the savings banks during the years of that Republican protection and pros- pnrhhy of which you and I have boasi 50 much, ‘That Bryan, with all the force of his nature, pelieves that instead of protecting American labor, we should give the job to the foreigner who can live cheaper and work cheaper than the American laborer can do. That Bryan, so it was ble for him to be, is Tesponsibie for the fact that to-day millions of foreign laborers are basking in the sunshine of pm-pmtx.by doing our work, while an equal number of those American borers, whom he wants to vote for him, are suffering from wan! 'i‘,"‘"’ and 1dleness.’ And that an leves in continuing this condition of things. That he believes in, snd if he is given the power, he will continue to giva the job to the loreigner and to impoverish this country by sending its money across the ocean to pay the laborer in foreign lands. But these are not all. Mr. Brydn proposes to (%Hher help the foreigner by ‘coining his sil- ver free of charge -ndg at the expense of the United States and at the risk ot any ruin and disaster it may bring to our people. And it is this last act of kindness to the for- eigner which seems to please you, my old Re- publican friend, the most. You say I “‘shouid call to mind that the only free trade which Bryan has advocated during the present campaign is the free and unlimited coinage of silver.” Yes, I have watched the evidencesof the shrewd politician displayed by Mr. Bryan in that he seems to have forgot- ten his own history and to have either for- gotten all the sound protection teachings of that immortal founder of Democracy, Thomas Jefferson, or he is trying to kick np so much dust by his loud cry for silver as to hide his own history and his resl principles from pub- lic observation. But while I am c:re(un{ watching all' Mr. Bryan says in this campaign I bave not for- gotten that when in Congress in a debate with Congressman McKenna of California he de- clared that the policy of protection to Ameri- can industries, which you and I have always believed in and have always advocated, was like the policy of the pickpocket and robber. I have not forgotfen that on the 20th of March, 1892, when our Senator Perkins was defending the auf:r bounty in the interests of the production of our own sugar, Mr. Bryan declared tnat he was opposed to the sugar bounty and also to all kinds of protectionand weut on to say: “The difference between a rotective tariff and a bounty, is simply a dif+ lerence in form. It is the difference between the man who meets you on the highway, knocks you down and tskes what you have, and the man who steals into your house in the night while you are ssleep and robs you of your treasure. And if Ihad to make a choice of the two, Ishould consider the highway rob- ber the more honorable.” And wiile Iremem- ber all this and very much more like it, I am notaware that the man who in Congress placed you and I on the level with the pickpockets and highway robbers, has met with any change of heart in his estimate of us. ° The only change I have been able to observe is in your strange and unaccountable love for the -man who has publicly declared thatyou fi?va been a pickpocket and a robber all your e. It is not alone the fact that this political demagogae has insulted you and myself and that he tramples on the wisdom of Jefferson, Washington and the long line of proteetionists who have made the pages of our National his- tory bright and glorious by their words of wisdom and patriotism, but the fact that this poiitical curiosity still entertains the same ideas and adherés to the same principles so oiten announced by him that makes me un- willing by my vote to aid him in his ambition to ride roughshod over the wisdom of the ages and the best interests of the people. While you are talking about my jnconsis- tency, how is it with the Bee? If you desire any further reasons wh{ I am against Bryan and in favor of McKinley, I might say that while McKinley represents the embodiment of all the great political principles which you and I have advocated all our liyes, Bryan not only represents the reverse, but he is the rep-, resentative of a political conglomeration which is only a huge bubble which arose from the froth of a wild political speecn made by himself in Chicago, and which, although gilded by a silver coating, just assoon as it rises high enough so that the light of American intelligence strikes it; will dry up and explode like any other bubble, He represents that Demo-Populistic de- formity which was born when he was nomi- nated in July last, and which will die when he is defeated at the ballo-box in November next. It had no ancestry and it will have no posterity. With this brief statement of some of the reasons why I am for McKinley and against Bryan, I am, very xupcclfuuyk v. EPENCER. THE TWO-TAILED CAT. A cat with two tails on the top of the fence Was sitting one day, full of pride and pretense, When a rooster flew up and attempted to crow. “Hello!” cried the cat, “zow that’s cheeky, you now. For a seedy old chicken you make rather free; And only one tail! Well, I never!” said he. ‘And, arching his spine 10 rosition convex, He turned toward the rooster his double annex. The rooster next day met that very same cat, His head ba ging down and his vertebrm fiat. He turned not again in his insolen: pride; There seemed to be something he wanted to hide. But the cause of his SOFrow was pIain 10 be seen— One tail and a stamp where the other had been. “Helio!” said the bird, “you are surely in pain.” Alas!” sald the cat, “those rude people in Malne! My dual appendage no longer prevails: They’ve trampied off one of my beantiful tails.” —Indianapolis Journal. - INTERESTS 0. SHEEP-OWNERS. Los Angeles Times. WLl the sheep-owners of the Pacific Coast vote for Bryan? It looks singular that they should do so after his vote in Congress (affirm- atively)on the Wilson bill that has rendered their property comparatively of no value. With choice Oregon wool at6 cents per pound, the webioot nation can be trusted to go to the olls in November and vote solidly for Me- inley, who fought so steadfastly and nobly against the depreciation of their property, LADY'S BEAUIFUL HOUSE GOWN. This charming house gown of pale blue cre- pon, with sleeves of white satin, has & collar- ette and lower sleeves of white lace over black satin; these portions being trimmed with bandsof sable or other dainty fur. A black satin collar finishes the neck, and black satin ribbons extend from the shirring in front to the waist line in the back. Small points of lace and satin finish the sleeves and are added to the stock collar. A beautiful gown of rough white wool goods that was made in this style had a collarette of yellow satin overlaid with white lace, this edz‘:d ali around with a fine pleating of yellow chiffon. Another of pink China silk had collarette and lower sleeves of pink and white brocade, with ruffies of yellow lace around the collar and falling over the hand. Pink satin ribbon formed the coilar. A less expensive gown of cotton crepon in violet hi oke and lower sleeves of fancy silk in se shades of violet, with edgings of mink and stock collar of the fancy silk. - own s fitted under the arms and hasa y lining. The lower sleeves ma omitted, as shown in the smaller illustration, which also gives the back view. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Reginald de Koven, who has set to music a number of xugene Field’s poems, is writing new music for some of the poet's later lulla- bies. Borchgrevink, the Antarctic explorer, has just married a young woman in England, and has put aside for a time his plans for reaching the south pole. Mrs. George Lunt, who has just died st her .home in Scituate, Mass., at the age of 80 years, was a sister of the late Thomas William Par- sons, the poet, and had herself written poetry. While the late Edoch Pratt of Baltimore was ‘most generous, he had a number of pet econo- mies. was in the habit of walking between his home and his bank, and when some one suggested that he ought to use the streetear, as the fare was only 5 cents, he rejoined: “Only 5 cents! Don’t you know, sir, that $1000 will have to work nearly a whole week to earn that 5 cents?” MUSIC AND MUSICIANS, There is some amusing reading in an inter- view with Ugo Gorlitz just published in the Strand Musical Magazine. Gor)itz will be re- membered as Paderewski’s secretary and gen- eral factotum, who, aiter being pampered and caressed all along tne route, took upon him- self toward the end of the tour to sey for pub- lication some of the most slighting things about Americans and American institutions that were ever uttered. This little great man, who shines with a reflected glory, seems to have reached a pinnacle of deluded self-esteem which is grotesque, In reply to the question of the Strand reporter whether he had met with any disagreeable incidents in America Paderewski’s business man remarked that the only thing that jarred on his nerves occurred at Des Moines, where unfortunately he and his star arrived on election day. At the hotel the sensilive Goriitz and Paderewski were ‘“‘con- stantly annoyed by the intrusion of politicians who kept on mistaking our room for that of the Governor of the State. To crown every- Padetewski’s Factotum, Who Was Annoyed by an Iowa Band. thing half an hour before the recital a street band commenced playing outside.’”” This street band seems to have been the only trial to his fortitude which the pampered Gorlitz was called upon to sustain during his American tours with the Polish pianist. The enthusi- astic demonstrations of admiration of which “we” were the object do not seem to have jarred upon his sensibilities, possibly because of the four and five dollar prices to which he naively alludes thus: “Qur car was sur- rounded by people who immediately Mr. Pad- erewski appeared cried out, ‘Yes, yes; it’s he!’ and in about an hour every seat was sold at four and five dollar prices.” * The quotation “It’s he” is the one'drop of balm which Gor- litz pours on the sensibilities of the Polish pianist’s American friends. It was kind of him to spare us, for he might have represented the admiring throng as crying, regardless of grammar, ‘It’s him,” An interesting recital was given not long ago in Paris at the theatrical and musical ex- position in the Palace of Industry. It was the first exhibition of a new system of piano pedals inyented by a man named Cateurs of Barcelona in Spain. There were six pedals to the pianoforte, inciuding the forte, celeste and tonal pedals, the uses of which are already well known. The three new pedals included in the system are called the pedale soudine, which was found by the critics to weaken and suppress the sound in a very curious fashion and to give it a fluidity, which made it almost disappear; the pedale ciaire, which, on the con- trary, gave great intensity and distinctness to the notes, and, lastly, the pedale harmonique, which made the harmonies struck on the key- board stand out in an entirely new fashion for the piano. These six pedals are placed in the following order: For the right foot, the pedale | claire, the pedale forte and the pedale sourdine; | for the left foot, the pedale celeste, pedale har- monique, pedale tonale (for retention). It is said that the mechanism is not difficult to master. The recital which introduced the new and revised piano to Paris was given by Emilio Sabater, 8 young Spanish pianist. A showy, attractive march composed by E. E. Schmitz, musical director of the Columbia Theater, has just been published. The new work is called “The Great Unknown.” In these days of Sousa and his admirers it is hard for an American march composer to break away from the traditions of “The Washington Post March” and its numerous imitations. Mr. Schmitz, however, has had the courage tostrike out for himself and *‘The Great Unknown” has plenty of ‘'go,” though it is not of the Sousa school. It is written in six-eight time, a rather uncommon time-signature in popular marches, but this does not prevent it from having a good, swinging rhythm. While the modulations are simple the changes of key which occur in “The Great Unknown” add considerably to its color and variety. The march will be almost certain to achieve popu- larity. Itiseasy to play and may sately be rec- ommended as an excellent study in phrasing to those pianoforte students who affect the popular style of composition. The Paris Opera Comique has reopened for the winter season with & most successful re- prise of Gluck’s “Orpheus.”” On the first night the public noticed that the staircases leading o the auditorium were new, and now a rather startling story connected with them has leaked out. It seems that last May the staircases were declared unsafe by experts, and the people conuected with the theater were ex- pecting them “to fall from day to day. All through June the manager lived in hourly terror of a catastrophe, but nothing seems to have been done till the theater was closed for the summer vacation. The Opera Comique is an opera-house subsidized by the Government, and one would imagine thatan unsafe stair- case would not be permitted to linger there a day. Nevertheless the Paris papers gravely describe the condidion of affairs now that the dauger has passed, and they add that the hew staircases are warranted to last till the new home of the opera comique is completed. George H. Clutson has been uttering a very true wail of an accompanist. He says: “He must have considerable technique, and confi- dent command over his instrument, be well versed in the different schools of musie, be able to adapt himself to the T- sonality of the artist he 1s assisting, be able to read with certainty at sight, possess the power of finding little or no difficulty in transposing, have enormous patieuce, tact and judgment, be prepared to bear all the consequences of any mistake on the part of the soloist, accept & most inadequate fee for his services, ana feelerateful to the eritic who will condescend 80 much as to say, ‘Mr. 8o and So accompan. ied,’ in recognition of his work. As to his DO~ sition in the artistic circle, I am SOITY to say the resl value of his work is rarely appre- ciated.” Poetry and music have been called into requisition to fete the return of the hardy polar voyager Dr. Nansen. A Christiania news- paper which opened a competition for the best plece in verse destined to glorify the cel- ebrated voyager announces that it has re- ceived no less than 843 manuscripts. As for music, it appears that in Christiania they are seliing thousands of divers compositions in- spired by the voyage of Nansen. The work most in request isa march by Oscar Borg, en- titled thé “Nordpol March,” and a piece which bears the originel and meteorological titie of «86-14” (eighty-six degrees fourteen mine utes). A %un Franeisco Swedish Society announces s graad concert to fete the return of Dr. Nan« sen. It is comical to see how the crities of the New York dailies have wilted before Osn’f Hammerstein’s new opera ‘Santa Maria. These gentlemen sre in the habit of jumping on a piece with both feet when it doeu_noi please them, and it can scarcely be credited that the doggerel of Hammerstein’s libretto or the music of his score have tickled their ears or their imaginations. The fact is that Ham- merstein 1s nut a common composer, who earns nis daily bread and beer by writing operas. He s a big magnate in the theatrical world, with a big theater of his own; so, in spite of the fact that his music is crude ana rudimen- tary, dull and stupid, the critics, with one or two exceptions, have slapped him on the back, and said, “Bravo, Oscar! Versatile old boy! Do it again”—and the long suffering public is afraid that he will. Rafaele Vitali,a singer well known in his day, who has just died in Italy, had a curious experience during the course of his career. Vitali was a tenor, as well known for his good singing as for his remarkable qualities as an actor. In operassuch as Rossini’s “Othello” and Donizetti’s “Lucia” he never failed to bring down the house by his pathos. One evening at Rome, while he was singing in “Louisa Miller,” he was suddenly struck with a lowering of the voice, which made it im- possible for him to finish his role. In ome moment he had beem changed from a tenor into a barytone, and for the, rest of his career he sang in this latter capacity. He retired from the stage some years 8go, and devoted the rest of his life to teaching. Anew musical sensation is agitating the Italian musical journals. It was started by the Pungolo Parlamentare of Naples, which received from its Milan correspondent the fol- lowing dispatch: A very reliable informant, who is in a position to know, assures me that, whatever people may say, Verdi will write no more for the theater, but he is putting the fin- ishing touches to & grand oratorio, something in the style of Mendelssohn’s “Elijah.” Ora- torio s not a popular form of musical diver- sion in Italy, but Verdi has proved himself capable of writing sacred music, and it is very possible that the grand old man may have the promisea surprise of an oratorio in store. The comic opera epidemic has spread from London to New York if the productions which are being played ata number of the theaters can be dignified by that name. With the ex- ception of “The Geisha” the performances which are masquerading under the name of comdc opera resally seem to be variety shows under another name, The Royal Opera of-Buda Pesth has just suc- ce! lly produced a new patriotic opera, en- L2 “Mathias Corvinus,” composed by Charles Frotzler. The .composer, Who as sumed on the bills the pen-name of Auer, is the musical director of Count Esterhazy's pri- vate theater at Totis, in Hungary. It will be remembered that Joseph Haydn began his musical fame under just the same conditions and with the same family of Esterhazy. It is t0 be hoped that Frotzler willone day reach a fame analogous to that of Haydn. Mrs. John Vance Cheney is succeeding very ‘well as a pianoforte teacher in Chicago. Leo Stern, the celebrated English ’cellist, is to visit America next January. Mrs. Katherine Fisk, the American con- tralto, who has won success in London, is to sing for the Chicago Apollo Club next April. Miss Sibyl Sanderson is in Milan, where she is soon to appear at the Lyric Theater in Mas- senet’s “Manon’” and Saint-Saens’ “Phryne.” CAMPAIGN ECHOES. John Boyd Thacher gota very short run for his money.—Washington Post. Tom Watson is still on deck carrying his mouth with him.—New York Tribune. William Jennings Bryan hunts his crowds; ‘William McKinley’s crowds hunt him.—Phila- delphia Press. Reading, Mich., bes & boy orator who beats™ Bryan. He isonly 17 years old, and will not be defeated for President this year.—Detroit Free Press. Mr. Bryan has made 150 speechesand he never told a single audience why anybody should vote for him for President—Toledo Commercial. When Tom Watson wakes up in the morn- ing his first question is: *“Has that inter- loper, Sewall, withdrawn yei?’—New York Advertiser. This paper is strongly in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of protection, reciproc- ity and sound money at a business ratio,— Union City Times. After his defeat Bryan can call on Bismarck and propose 4 joint crusade in Germany to make all the silver of the worid jump to $1 29.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The people who averred that there could be nothing worse than the poster fad were not aware of the possibilities concealed in the campaign button.—Washington Star. Neither Bryan nor Sewsll can carry his own State, or his own town, or his own ward. or his own precinct. If one’s neighbors and personal friends won’t trust him, who else should?— Kansas City Journal. Candidate Bryan’s contention that tree coin. age would make silver as good as gold would pe more convincing if he were not at the same time holding that gold is the worse tyrant and grinder on earth.—Philsdelphia Record, CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ Ib. 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